"So I wrote down, 'Pre-made pillow fort, and a vanilla Coke,'" he said.

Hotel staff obliged, leaving him a stack of pillows with a note that read "DYI (sic) Pillow Fort Kit" and a coupon for two vanilla Cokes to be made by hotel chefs — plus candy to fuel his fort-building mission.

Hotel sales and marketing director Jacques Lavergne said that fulfilling Relph's unique request is just part of the Fairmont experience.

"We've got a remarkable team here at the hotel," Lavergne toldMetro Winnipeg.

"Oddly enough, this isn't a one off — we deal with an interesting mix of clientele here and we get some pretty off-the-wall requests. It's part of the culture here at the hotel."